Casting has been announced for An Officer And A Gntleman The Musical which will visit Wales Millennium Centre next spring as part of a UK tour. Zac Mayo will be played by Luke Baker (Billy Elliot, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Footloose). Paula Pokrifki will be played by Georgia Lennon (Lady Chatterley in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Belle in Beauty and the Beast). They will be joined by Jamal Crawford (Fame The Musical, The Bodyguard, Back To The Future The Musical) who will be playing Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley, Paul French (Grease, Annie) who will be playing Sid Worley, and Sinead Long (Hamilton,…
Author: Alice Gregory
Alice Gregory
Entertainment & Features Writer
Leading Welsh PR agency Effective Communication has made three new promotions and an appointment as it continues to build on its recent success in its 20th year. Effective Communication, which supports organisations with PR, digital and video expertise, has promoted Ffion Pocock to account director and Catherine Felton and Catrin Powney to account manager. Account director Ffion originally joined Effective as a graduate in 2014, before spending two years working for Network Rail and returning to Effective in 2018. Since her return she has led a number of key client accounts and helped drive new business. …
Live Nation and leading live music and event promoter Cuffe & Taylor announced Hozier as headliner for its first-ever Summer Sessions series coming to Chepstow Racecourse in July 2024. Playing Tuesday, 9 July 2024, Hozier will be joined by very special guests American singer-songwriter Brittany Howard and indie rock outfit Lord Huron. Tickets to the Hozier show go on general sale on Friday 10 November at 10am via smmrsessions.com / ticketmaster.co.uk. Fans can follow @smmrsessions for the latest news and updates. Hozier, internationally acclaimed Irish singer-songwriter, is set to captivate audiences with a mesmerising headliner performance at the inaugural Chepstow…
A business which helps to look after some of Swansea’s most vulnerable members has received a major boost after being recognised in the Top 20 Home Care Provider rankings with a perfect 10 out of 10 score. Swansea-based Living at Home is one of only two companies in the entirety of Wales that managed to achieve such a remarkable score. Aimed at making it easier for those seeking home care to find the right agency, Home Care announces the Top 20 agencies each year. The Top 20 Awards guide those in need of care by highlighting those home care agencies…
Grant Thornton UK LLP is set to welcome seven new joiners to its Cardiff office this year, as part of the leading business and financial adviser’s largest ever nationwide intake of graduates and school leavers. The new starters will join a variety of key departments across the Welsh business, including commercial audit, tax, public sector audit, and reward advisory services. This year, a record number of new school leavers and graduates will be starting their careers at Grant Thornton, with a combined total of 496 people joining the firm via these routes. Of this, a total of 213…
One-off comedy show, featuring five brilliant acts, takes place on Saturday 2 December 2023 in the Spiegeltent in Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. The producers of Cardiff Christmas Festival and SHELTER Cymru are thrilled to announce the full line-up for a special comedy show which forms part of this year’s festival. The line-up for The Christmas Cracker Comedy Night includes: The Raymond and Mr Timpkins Revue(UK Comedy Awards Comedian of the Year 2019); daughter of Burry Port Anna Thomas (BBC New Comedian of the Year 2021); the UK’s foremost guitar-wielding and loop-layering stand-up comedian Rob Deering; brilliant Cardiff stand-up comedian and writer Leroy Brito; and TV and comedy festival star Jarred Christmas (Chortle Comedy Award Best Compere UK). This…
The internet’s favourite best friend duo today announce their biggest live tour to date, The Girls Bathroom Planet Tour 2024, as Sophia and Cinzia take their chart-topping podcast to 15 cities across the UK & Ireland next autumn. Following the phenomenal success of their first two sold-out tours, The Girls Bathroom is back bigger than ever before with more shows, more cities and even bigger venues. From their very first shows in Dublin, Belfast and Wales to closing the tour with their biggest live show yet at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall, Sophia and Cinzia will be taking fans to a whole new…
Casting has been announced for Edward Scissorhands, which will be visiting Wales Millennium Centre next spring as part of an 18-week UK tour. Edward Scissorhands will star Liam Mower and Stephen Murray as Edward Scissorhands with Katrina Lyndon and Ashley Shaw as Kim Boggs. Kerry Biggin, Sophia Hurdley, Etta Murfitt and Mami Tomotani will feature as Peg Boggs, with Glenn Graham and Dominic North as Bill Boggs. Benjamin Barlow Bazeley and Ben Brown will play Jim Upton with Stephanie Billers, Nicole Kabera and Ashley Shaw as Joyce Monroe and James Lovell, Luke Murphy and Reece Causton as her husband, George.…
Swansea-based Phillippa Walter and Leila Bebb are among the artists starring in a touring exhibition that’s just arrived in the city centre. They’re showcased at Swansea Council’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery alongside other talented Welsh artists. They come together in the Disability Arts Cymru (DAC) Arts Prize exhibition Aildanio (reignite) that runs at the free-entry gallery until November 5. Phillippa, a printmaker who lives in Gower and is inspired by people and the natural world, said: “I’m delighted that this travelling exhibition is now in Swansea city centre. It’s been really well received in other Welsh locations over the past 10…
A man from Cardiff who had a stroke in 2018 and was diagnosed with aphasia has worked with over 100 speech and language therapy students at Cardiff Metropolitan University to help them complete their degrees and raise awareness of the condition. Marc Rees, 61, from Llanishen, was 56 when he had a stroke and, despite making a good physical recovery, was later diagnosed with aphasia – a condition which causes a person to have difficulty with their spoken and written language and can be the result of a stroke. Aphasia is a relatively unknown and often misunderstood condition, despite currently…